Syria Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (September 2014)

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The Un-Islamic State Mouin Rabbani reveals that the explanations for the Islamic State’s existence should be based on their political landscape in which they operate from rather than the Islamic theology.

Islamic State: Back in Business Jadaliyya reports: “Emerging in an increasingly chaotic Middle East, IS is profiting from the region’s growing sectarianism, political vacuum and the ambivalence of the West.”

How Not To Understand ISIS Alireza Doostdar claims that the knowledge of ISIS is very limited. The point Doostdar makes is to understand the cycles of the belligerence of ISIS before we can accurately describe them. Studying doctrines is limited in what it can explain.